Juan Simón Salazar

You’re probably right.

[David Villegas @DavidVille100]

Hoy en la ciclovía por Oviedo conocí al amor de mi vida. Nos miramos 10 segundos caminando en direcciones contrarias. El único problema es que cada quien siguió derecho y no sé cómo se llama. Ayúdenme a retweetear para encontrarla (invitados al matri)

[Proantioquia @proantioquia1]

🙌 Presentamos las movidas en educación que priorizaremos en Proantioquia para el 2025.

[Juan Simón Salazar @juansim0n]

@mariabibibotero @elcolombiano @cifrasyconcepto @proantioquia1 Que crack 🫶🏽

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Former Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi on leaving your crown in the garage.

[Juan Simón Salazar @juansim0n]

@davidescobara @Comfama Que librazo Built to last, amigo. Un abrazo grande!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Being good (in either sense) will bring you what seems like good luck, but isn't as random as it seems. People will talk about you behind your back, just as they do if you're bad, but instead of secretly harming you, they'll secretly help you.

[Maria Bibiana Botero C @mariabibibotero]

Con respeto, apelando a la sensatez y el bien común, pedimos desde Antioquia que el @metrodemedellin conserve su carácter técnico que lo ha blindado por años y ha permitido mejorarles la calidad de vida a los que habitamos este territorio.

[Alejandro Duque @aleducode]

Tercer año consecutivo entre las mejores 100 del país @hackUeducacion 💜💜🇨🇴

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I am pro-Palestinian. Some might be surprised by this due to my recent advocacy on @X for Israel, but you shouldn’t be.

I am anti-terrorist, not anti-Palestinian. It is not inconsistent to be pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian. And my pro-Palestinian viewpoint is not a new one. My pro-Palestinian perspective began more than 30 years ago when I was introduced to the Palestinian community and their plight in the early 1990s.

I have invested millions in helping promote Palestinian economic development and peaceful coexistence. We would do a lot more if we could be confident that the funds would be used productively.

The crisis in Gaza is largely due to a failure of leadership. The Palestinians elected Hamas in 2006 after Israel withdrew and evicted 9,000 of its own citizens from their Gazan homes. Israel withdrew from Gaza for peace. It was a small scale test of a two-state solution.

Rather than building the Singapore of the Middle East over the last 18 years, Hamas diverted funding to build tunnels, rockets and munitions to wage terror and war in an effort to eliminate Israel and kill Jews.

Like the Israelis, the vast majority of Palestinians want peace. They want opportunities for employment so they can earn a living wage to support and educate their families so the next generation can build a better life.

They want peace, beauty, happiness, health and prosperity as we all do. All of that would have been possible with Gazan leadership which focused on economic development rather than terrorism. Israel and (most of) the world wanted the Gazan experiment to succeed.

Israel simply wanted peace. Israel built a fence and created checkpoints to protect its citizens from suicide bombers and other forms of terror. The Egyptians built a concrete wall at their border with Gaza for the same reasons. The need for a fence and checkpoints is made self-evident by the catastrophic impact on Israel when the fence was breached on Oct. 7th.

Hamas is in the business of terrorism. Hamas makes money with grift, corruption, and funding from Israel’s enemies who support Hamas to achieve their own anti-Israel objectives. Hamas and those that support it don’t care about the Palestinians. The Palestinians are simply a tool to implement their anti-Israel and/or anti-Jew objectives.

Like other businesses, Hamas has a corporate hierarchy where those at the top make thousands of times more than the ‘workers’ at the bottom. Hamas’ leaders have put aside hundreds of millions and even billions for themselves.

Hamas uses their ‘culture’ of terrorism, cash, and other incentives to motivate young, brainwashed —often from youth—, radicalised militants to implement death, torture and destruction. Their ‘success’ at terrorism attracts more funding, amplifies Israel’s response, and the cycle continues.

Hamas does not care about the Palestinian people. Hamas knew with certainty how Israel would respond to the torture, rape, beheading, and slaughter of Israeli women, children, seniors and infants on Oct. 7th.

Hamas’ plan was to hide out in their tunnels and headquarters built under major hospitals, limit evacuations so that Palestinian citizens are exposed to the inevitable Israeli military response, and then rally the world against Israel in a globally coordinated response as innocent civilians die.

Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas. It cannot allow its survival, as Hamas’ existence remains an existential threat. If ISIS invaded our southern border, we would do the same. We would warn civilians to evacuate and then we would go in and destroy the terrorists. We wouldn’t cease fire until they were obliterated.

The whole situation is an incredible tragedy. While I have always hoped for a viable and peaceful two-state solution, the Gaza experiment has been an abject failure. Future efforts for statehood for the Palestinians must learn from this catastrophe.

As always, I welcome your input, critiques and rebuttal.

What did I get wrong?

[Oscar Rojas @oarojas10]

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[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Do not use your energy to worry. Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Adversity doesn’t build character; it reveals it.

Related: Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

[Juan Simón Salazar @juansim0n]

@aleducode @valeriafrancot Kiter@s en todos lados

[David Perell @david_perell]

You can see something 10,000 times on your phone, but never understand it until you see it in person for the first time.

That’s the lesson from the park bench scene in Good Will Hunting.

Matt Damon is the arrogant, book-smart intellectual who’s seen little but read everything. Robin Williams is the wise professor who rolls his eyes at Damon’s hubris. The stuff of life can only be fully absorbed through direct experience, he says.

This is one reason why school falls short. It conflates regurgitation for understanding.

Shakespeare’s plays have been reduced to bite-sized cramming on SparkNotes and exam questions the following day. Or, take entrepreneurship, where certain kinds of wisdom can only be gained in the trenches of a sales call or when you have to fire the executive you swore was going to save your company.

Travel, too.

Something about the Golden Gate Bridge can only be understood when you feel the Pacific Ocean wind and shiver under a blanket of fog. Something about the life of Moses can only be understood when you stand atop Mount Nebo (where he died) and look down at the Promised Land of Israel. Something about Italian food can only be understood when you slurp “siero” in a Parmesan cheese factory and meet the 4th-generation shop owner.

Pixels on a screen aren’t enough.

Get out and Do the Thing because certain kinds of knowledge can only be gained through tactile, first-hand experience.

[Juan Simón Salazar @juansim0n]

@aleducode First home.

[Freddy Vega @freddier]

🎢 La educación es una industria salvaje.

Cuando funciona crea una pasión fanática.
Si no funciona, crea un resentimiento traumático.

La educación exige foco y tarda en dar resultados.

La demora crea ansiedad, desesperación y odio.
Y luego, bienestar y motivación.

Salvaje.

[Naval @naval]

Great people change you, not by expectation but by inspiration.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Investing is about picking drivers, not cars.

[Juan Simón Salazar @juansim0n]

reality - expectations = happiness

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Big ambitions, low expectations, and high standards are a powerful combination for living your best life.

Ambitions pull you forward when it's hard because they connect you to something larger. One of my most important ambitions is to be a great father. Another is to grow syrus and fs. You can't have a meaningful life without a connection to something larger than yourself.

Expectations minus reality = happiness. You will never be happy until your expectations are exceeded. The world doesn't owe you anything. If you want something to happen, you have to make it happen. You can't sit around waiting for the world to come and hand you what you think you deserve. Go positive and go first and the world will reciprocate.

High standards - I am not always at my best, but I always give my best. I hold myself to a high bar. I don't always meet it, but I won't lower the bar to feel better about myself.